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The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines — and what it means for other diseases
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The first US shipments of the joint Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were ready by mid-December. Credit: Michael Clevenger/Getty
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Nature 589, 16-18 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03626-1